Rush Limbaugh Reveals The REAL Reason Mitt Romney Is Attacking Trump

Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney has been attacking GOP front-runner Donald Trump over the past few days, and now Rush Limbaugh has exposed why Romney is so hellbent on targeting Trump.

Romney’s main complaint has been that Trump has not yet released his tax information to the public. On Thursday Limbaugh noted that this move by the former 2012 Republican presidential nominee was very calculated.

According to Limbaugh, many Republicans are on the verge of endorsing the Donald, which in turn is making the GOP establishment very worried.

Related Stories

Romney started targeting Trump this week as a strategic move to place doubt in the mind of many of those who would potentially endorse Trump, Limbaugh suggested.

“Romney’s trying to make it look like he’s seen Trump’s taxes, and he’s trying to make it look like Trump’s taxes are not the taxes of a billionaire. I mean, he’s not paying very much,” Limbaugh said on Thursday. ”This is what is being insinuated. It’s what being implied.”

Advertisement - story continues below

Limbaugh then added, “And you’re supposed to infer that, ‘Well, he’s not paying nearly enough taxes for a billionaire, so either he’s not a billionaire or he’s cheating or maybe he’s not donating all that money to charity that he says he is.’”

Limbaugh then poked holes in Romney’s campaign against Trump, saying that Romney is just “copying” what happened to him during the 2012 presidential election when Harry Reid attacked Romney. In 2012, Reid made headlines when he claimed that Romney had not paid his taxes for 10 years.

This claim had no evidence, but made the American people doubt Mitt Romney unless he ponied up his tax returns. Reid later admitted in 2015 that he had lied.

“This is exactly what Dingy Harry did to him, and Romney didn’t exactly handle it very well when it happened to him,” Limbaugh said. “So I think maybe it’s just an attempt — I think he’s trying to freeze Trump where he is on this possibility there might be Republican establishment types on the verge of endorsing Trump.”

All we can say is, good luck, Gov. Romney. You’d better be ready for a battle if you’re going to take on The Donald.